RIDHIWANI Kikwete was on Sunday evening declared MP-Elect for
Chalinze in which he secured 86.6 per cent of
the total votes cast.
Mr Kikwete got 20,828 votes cast in his name, an equivalent of 86.6
per cent while his 'closest' opponent, Mr Mathayo Torongey, from Chadema
got 2,544 votes or 10.5 per cent and the CUF contestant Mr Fabian
Skauki, got 476 votes, which is an equivalent of 1.9 per cent.
AFP contestant Ramadhan Mgaya got 186 votes or 0.5 per cent, while
Hussein Muniru (NRA) got 60, equivalent to 0.2 per cent of the vote.
National Electoral Commission (NEC) Returning Officer, Samwel
Salianga, who is also Bagamoyo District Executive Director, said the
voter register had 92,000 entrants, but only 24,422 people went to the
polls.
He said this was below the number of those who voted in the 2010
general elections who counted 36,000 while there was also fewer voters
who turned up compared to those who did so in 2010.
On his part, the loser, Mr Torongey, claimed there were some hiccups
in the exercise, especially in the number of those who voted whose voter
card numbers differed from those in the registry.
The by-election was held following the death of the area's MP, Mr
Said Bwanamdogo, who passed on at the Muhimbili Orthopaedic Institute
(MOI) where he was undergoing treatment.
Mr Ridhiwani was born on April 16, 1979 and is a lawyer by profession.
He was educated at Shaaban Robert Secondary School in Dar es Salaam
and Mkwawa Secondary School in Iringa. He then joined the University of
Dar es Salaam where he graduated with a Bachelor of Law Degree.
Ridhiwani Kikwete on the right.
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